Word: aidez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political image in modern art, Guernica, and evoked some remarkable images from Spaniards other than Picasso, such as Salvador Dali and Joan Miró. Guernica could not be lent to this exhibition, although one gets some hint of the fervors from Miró's design for a poster, Aidez l'Espagne, and from Dali's hallucinated Cannibalisme d'Automne. But most of the work by French artists in support of the Republicans and the Popular Front now seems pedestrian; French painting had no equivalent to Malraux's Espoir or Georges Bernanos' Les Grands Cimeti...
That night, just before she went onstage at the Kennedy Center, she whispered a little prayer: "Man Dieu, aidez moi." Born in Paris, Colbert likes to speak to God directly-in his native tongue. But nothing worked that day. Her timing, perfect the night before, was off ever so slightly, and she even fluffed a couple of lines. Getting up early the next morning to read the Washington Post, she was stunned by a savage review, and almost immediately began throwing up. "Have you seen the newspaper?" she asked an interviewer that afternoon. "Is it true? Tell me frankly." After...